Mastery Rank Really Mean Anything?

[(PSN)Kamranos]

I've noticed a ton of people posting in the recruiting tab and they always ask for mastery rank. My question is, do you guys/gals really think ones mastery rank is a testament of their skill? 

 

Personally I see it only as the amount of weapons and warframes built. I've seen M15's with half my in game time, yet they are prefered over someone who may be level 4, but a great player. 

 

So I leave it to you. Do you think mastery means anything other than their collection of goodies?

[(PSN)IIIDevoidIII]

In general, Mastery rank means they've been playing longer, and therefor should've developed more skill. But no, it is not an accurate representation.

[Brynslustafir]

It's used as an E-peen measuring tool. 

[Alighierian]

you can use it to measure 2 things:

 

- playing time time wasted on levelling stuff

- amount of weapons levelled

 

it doesn't say anything about actual skill, whether you have a good build, or whether you actually know how to use your weapon / frame.

[LittleHalfkin]

At the moment having a mastery rank over 8 means nothing. It's not a testament to skill, more like the availability of better weapons. This might be the reason higher mastery rank players may be preferred, I don't really know. I'm a mastery rank 16 player with over 1000 hours in the game and I sill get myself killed a lot wither by not paying attention or killing myself with explosives.

[BrotherIcarus]

It does not acutely mean anything but there is a correlation between a players skill and there mastery rank.

[(PSN)Folkeye]

Longer playtime has nothing to do with being a better player. You just know what the buttons do faster.

[TheSuperneenja]

It measures how much Cyath grinding you've done.

[Vanth]

I've noticed a ton of people posting in the recruiting tab and they always ask for mastery rank. My question is, do you guys/gals really think ones mastery rank is a testament of their skill? 

 

Personally I see it only as the amount of weapons and warframes built. I've seen M15's with half my in game time, yet they are prefered over someone who may be level 4, but a great player. 

 

So I leave it to you. Do you think mastery means anything other than their collection of goodies?

 

It means absolutely nothing. I played for months and months at rank 3 or so, simply because there was nothing beyond the Galatine and Boltor that I wanted, and I had fun and did well playing like that.  Then I wanted the Soma, and it took me *maybe* a week to get to rank 7.... getting Mastery Ranks is extremely easy if you know how. Since then, I haven't bothered taking Mastery Tests (I'd probably be like 12 now if I did) because there's no real need for me to do so.

[(PSN)Kamranos]

I've actually had people try to tell me I didn't know what I was doing in Warframe because my mastery wasn't high enough. I am Mastery 12 with 700+ hours in game, but I know it means nothing to the reasonably minded player. They may have M15 but not a single 'good' build, or they can be great at mastery 2 using a loadout of Boltor Prime, Lex Prime and Orthos Prime. All of which are great when throwing forma at them and require no higher than M2.

[(PSN)AES93]

The only reason I ranked up to lvl6 is because I wanted a weapon that was xp locked....

And I think it's for bragging rights and for players to work hard to get different weapons instead of just buying the best weapon.

[Yazeth]

Currently, you only need to get to Rank 8 to get access to all of the available weapons. After that, it's just a number. I think DE is planning to do reward you for higher Mastery Rank in the future, but I'm not sure. But yeah, right now it's not required for you to get to Rank 16 just to get everything in the game.